Thierry Varène be banker for more than thirty years, he has kept a side a little subversive. As when he is unworthy of the behaviour of traders who complain to pay too many taxes in France: "it is normal to pay taxes when you win money! Where will the money if not come However, it is normal to ensure that these taxes are well used. "It must be said that Thierry Varène, just to take the head of a team of bankers who cover major European BNP Paribas customers, is not really banker business, even if it has some attributes. Bulimic working, always late, hunting in the property of the Sarthe and said opera lover. But all this "date from before the Bank of business."
Not mundane for a penny, he fled the dinners in the city: "I was always told that it would cause me problems, but ultimately I I am rather well unraveled without."
He is also renowned for his integrity, his outspokenness and his independence of view: "When I see business leaders, my role is not to tell them what they want to hear, but what I really think." It is not hard to believe, his mouth blows are legendary in the House.
More rare, Thierry Varène is a banker who advocate regulation: "need to regulate industries such as finance because otherwise market support to do so through crisis and makes all economies by land.". He was essentially European, a belief that comes from his family, industrialists and judges, resistant and deported during the war. "I am not indifferent to the success of French companies and European", he admits. Fifty-seven years, he has contributed to the emergence of a number of French and European champions and is not just proud: TotalFinaElf, Sanofi-Aventis, GDF, Suez among others, and of course, BNP Paribas.
There on all major operations
Since that it has taken responsibility for the activities of Bank of business in 2000, Thierry Varène is reached on all major operations of the House, since the offer on the Galeries Lafayette, Fortis through the acquisition of the Italian bank BNL, which made it unavoidable rue D'ANTIN. A success story for those who, from the ranks of Paribas, had to find its place in the Organization after the purchase by the BNP 11 years ago.
By Sciences po, formed the Bank Verne, and then in Barclays and BZW for thirteen years, he is spotted in 1995 by André Lévy-Lang, then President of Paribas, which does come. Two years later, he replaces Pierre Vernimmen as head of the business bank, just before the famous battle for the control of Paribas broke. When the Société Générale States his interest in the business bank, he argues for a true redemption rather than for an alliance, which earned him a time to be set aside. Dual OPA of BNP totally cards and enable it to become the entry point of the major clients of the Bank, position that he has developed and occupies still today.
The shadow of Michel Pébereau, the very influential President, accused by the competitors play elbows to provide to the Bank of the mandates of the part of the Business Council, has long surrounded the activities led by Thierry Varène. A criticism which annoys him. "Michel Pébereau brings unparalleled experience and thorough knowledge of the business." For my part, I have built direct relationships and, I believe, with many leaders of business confidence. "Its new responsibilities of business superbanquier will provide an opportunity to use.
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